Legal Advocacy

The Legal Advocacy Program provides services to victims and survivors staying at the shelter and those in the community that are not staying at the shelter.

Services include:

On-call advocacy follow-up to all arrests

Transportation (if needed) and support advocacy for court hearings

Assistance in gathering and documenting evidence in criminal and civil cases (photos of injuries)

A communication network linking survivors with probation officers, prosecuting attorneys, and law enforcement

Assistance with Orders for Protection and Harassment Orders

Through the Legal Advocacy Program, Safe Haven Shelter has worked to move beyond the concept of only providing emergency safe housing and advocacy, to an approach that challenges each of the community’s institutions to both protect victims of battering and to change the cultural facilitators of battering.

Safe Haven Shelter and Resource Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional orientation or gender identity, political affiliation, marital status, status with respect to public assistance, disability, or age in the delivery of services or employment practices.